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America is decidedly not 'post-racial.' ”
I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world. ”
You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it. ”
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. ”
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. ”
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them. ”
If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe. ”
Being with someone makes you happier and more content as a human being and takes your personality to greater heights and vice versa. And I don't think that's being too demanding. ”
As long as I don't look down upon any characters, that's fine. The moment I do that - the moment I think I'm superior or that others are inferior - I'm finished as an artist and as a human being. ”
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ”